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nbc would they use to make the costume? they used cereal boxes from the muscle kitchen. the white plates in front is a race krispies box and the one above it is from a cereal but i believe has not survived. i've never seen it. something called guido max. [laughter] there's layers of cultural complexity here because you got a japanese-american dancer engaging in a japanese dance in an american prison camp, making a costume out of boxes of american serial in the american serials they chose this race krispies, a concoction based on the staple of the japanese diet, race. so there's one other thing about this photograph that is a little surprising. the size and taxpayer in color, the fact they show japanese cultural entities rather than american cultural activities. but i want to give you a hint. it's not in the frame. there's something a little bit startling about the photograph that's not in the frame. any idea what they might be referring to? >> is surprised many people were allowed in. [inaudible] >> exactly. the thing that i'm alluding to is what is outside of the frame
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like us to interact with booktv guests with booktv gas and used to watch videos and get up-to-date information on events. facebook.com/booktv. >> with one month left in 2012, many publications are putting together their year-end lists of notable books. of tv will feature several of these lists focusing on nonfiction selections. these nonfiction titles were included in "the new york times" 100 notable books of 2012.
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he was just sending crews to seize the ships and use them against us. so the british came up with an idea to seize as many friendships as they possibly could, a very secret operation. and this was within days of the french-german agreement of jun june 22. and the idea was that where the french ships might of been in british courts, because some of them have escaped or scattered, somewhere in portsmouth, england, plymouth, england. a lot were in alexandria, egypt, where the french, or the british had a large fleet. and the two biggest but not quite finished battleships of the french fled to the car west africa and casablanca. but there was a very large hotel in a place called, on the algerian coast but for a couple of battleships, some big cruisers. and the british came up with this idea, they called it operational catapult. on the morning of july 3, they were going to seize as many friendships as they possibly could by agreement, hopefully, but if not, by force. and they figured in portsmouth and plymouth, england, this would be fairly easy because thes
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story most of us enjoy most. so when i am reading for fun i like to read ashley trollope, elizabeth gaskell, as well as well-known ones like jane austen and dickens and george areas. the american writer i like very much from that period or a little later is edith walton. great favorite of mine. i like her because she is the real storyteller but always kind of fiercely intelligent. her analysis of her characters always amaze you but that isn't all. she doesn't just do that, she tells you a real story. she is a great favorite of mine. >> before i turn this back over -- i want to ask a personal favor of you and ask you to sign this book. [applause] >> by the way -- you will have a chance to do the same. >> while they are signing i want to introduce myself, dale gregory, vice president of public programs and how thrilling it is to have you all here in these two charming gentlemen, i am sure you will agree and i want to remind you the book is on sale in the museum store, book signing will be out the back doors, i am s
story most of us enjoy most. so when i am reading for fun i like to read ashley trollope, elizabeth gaskell, as well as well-known ones like jane austen and dickens and george areas. the american writer i like very much from that period or a little later is edith walton. great favorite of mine. i like her because she is the real storyteller but always kind of fiercely intelligent. her analysis of her characters always amaze you but that isn't all. she doesn't just do that, she tells you a real...
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and talk to us. it will be more human like in thinking. >> guest: more integrated in our field of view so we don't actually have to interact with a a little box. it will be more seem less than that and eventually go inside our bodies. that is not tomorrow. that is decades away. another one of the trends i talked about in my previous book the singularity is near, information technology is progressing exponentially. performance and size, they are shrinking and the rate of 150 volumes per decade. these will be blood cell size in 2013s 42040s. we will put them in our blood stream to keep us healthy but they will go inside the brain, act as biological neurons, just to put those biological neurons as gateways to the clout and we can expand beyond three hundred billion pattern recognizers we have. one question is is that a lot for a little? it was a lot compared to other mammals so it enabled us to create art and science and technology but is little compared to what it is like because if you think about the
and talk to us. it will be more human like in thinking. >> guest: more integrated in our field of view so we don't actually have to interact with a a little box. it will be more seem less than that and eventually go inside our bodies. that is not tomorrow. that is decades away. another one of the trends i talked about in my previous book the singularity is near, information technology is progressing exponentially. performance and size, they are shrinking and the rate of 150 volumes per...
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we found books that shook us, filled us with joy and gladness, that sunned us to -- summoned us to courage and wonder. that used language in astounding ways. that surprised us what are narrative could do or we found books that brought beauty to the world of young readers and brought knowledge and understanding to the young world and brought wisdom to the world. we found books and this saint august seen that served the young readers in moving way and found the five finalists. these were the others who took that journey with me on that road. judith boar tease. susan cooper. dan yell, it's a great honor to be a part of the committee with you. i knew i would find wisdom in you all. i never expected to find friends. thank you for your labor and high and noble courtesy and kindness. for your belief that writing for young people is critically important for our culture. in such strangely troubled dais brought me back to hope. thank you. [applause] the five finalists are william alexander. goblin secrets. published. [cheering and applause] "out of reach" [cheering and applause] a story of the eleve
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british prime minister lord pomerance and told us for an officers. meanwhile, the lincoln government appeared overwhelmed. congress and the white house were in the hands of a political party that it never government before. the treasury department was broke. federal spending was multiplied as never before. in 1862, the u.s. government spent six times as much money as it spent in 1861. and where would it come from? northern banks, and an economic panic had closed their exchange windows in late december, refusing to redeem paper money. meanwhile, rebel soldiers menace washington from nearby manassas virginia where they had routed the union army a few months earlier. confederate artillery they atomic river above and below the n. no one in civilian authority, not even lincoln, had any detailed knowledge of the plans being prepared by the union's top general, george p. mcclellan. he was in secrecy assisted by a small clique of generals who shared his views of lincoln's policies. they were opposed. worse, mcclellan was rumored to be dying. with his plans d
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. >> is it coincidental uses direct consignment was that on purpose? >> he has a personal passion for the school because of his family connections. >> i can come in the american university, or who runs the? >> faculty air missile easterners. the vast majority of students. >> is it associated with religion, another school? >> is deliberately secular nonsectarian. >> what does it cost to go their four-year? >> i have no idea. >> what would it cost and reverend bliss this day. >> i don't thought that either come over 10 and open a store not offspring and delete, but to people of all ethnicities, classes and that's its appeal, it's mary. >> how is it viewed in the middle east and how is it the reverend bliss opened it? >> all-star with the chronologically earlier one first. there's a lot of suspicion when the school opened in the 1860s. this is run by christian missionaries, americans who didn't have very deep roots in the region, but rather quickly it became apparent to middle easterners who are not just orthodox christians, but this is the best place to
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the policemen who'd driven us to do many now drove us back to her house and dropped us off at the end of the drive. probably best if you don't talk about this to your sisters said father. i didn't want to talk about it to anybody. i had found a special place, made a new friend i lost my comic and i was told in old-fashioned silver sixpence tightly in my hand. i said what makes the ocean different to the city? baker said my father. a notion is much bigger than the sea. why? just thinking i said. could you have an ocean that was his policy pond? knows that my father. pawned our pond size, lakeside lakeside east premises are seas and oceans or should. atlantic, pacific, indian, arctic. i think that some of the oceans they are. my father went to his bedroom to talk to my mom and be on the phone with her. i chopped the silver sixpence into my piggy bank. it is the kind of china piggy bank from which nothing could be removed. one day when it could hold no more coins, i would be allowed to break it. it was far from full. [applause] [applause] and after that, things get weird. last back -- [l
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of your country and for the use of mankind. any adams has come within any other family but any other founding father who continue to serve his country generation after generation did get a nice jurists, historians, scholars of all types. wonderful attorneys. i met two young men, probably not young anymore, about 10, 15 years ago at my club one night. we just got talking to each other. i didn't know who they were and finally we introduced each other. they were both attorneys. one was named sam adams and the other was john adams. and sam adams is a direct descendent of john adams and john adams was a direct descendent of sam adams. >> and they seem to stay out of the news, which is probably good, unlike some political families. >> is there a place people can go? >> yes, there is a national park in quincy, the john adams national park, where you can see the lifelong homes of two generations of atoms is in the younger generation kept them up for a while, but they'll drifted into the cities. both the original homer john adams was bo
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the place he never uses not just economics. it's the discomfort that investigative reporting causes in the newsroom because it's troublesome. it's got more than economic. if you ruffle the feathers of some and powerful, that gets people running in to complain to the publisher of there's those kinds of things happening. her fortune all through the 70s and almost all of her career to work for people who are strong and upright in that area and just let the chips fall where they may. >> booktv is at the national press club were broken off. john mueller has his first workout on frederick douglass. we all know but frederick douglass, but you focus on the last 18 years of his life. why is that? >> many people know him as an abolitionist, state and an advocate for women's rights, but he is so much more than that. the last 25 years he spent in washing to d.c. he moved here in the late -- in the early 1870s. his children which are also well positioned well respected in washington and washington was the place to be with reconstruction. th
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we used to call it going down the slippery slope and that's what would happen. so what you have here is a process that went on for the real price change from the 290 through 2006, 2007, depending which index you look at, you have nine or 10 years of unprecedented growth. alaska but here's was that for us, but she had not meant a mount, a bubble of immense size before that. when a mentally undercapitalized is one of the big risks in at the same time their capital was weak capital. they counted a lot of tax credit, so i think they were doomed to matter what because they were basically floating on a thin layer of capital and that had been the case. they negotiated that case in 1882. >> there was one more other big lender and that was the chinese and other foreign official bodies or by fannie and freddie obligations, which money was going to feed the bubble. but they were buying it rightly assuming that the government would take care of them, even though they had virtually participated in running the risk. the risk would find somebody else is there interesting memoi
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there's a reception outside we invite you to join us. hope you'll buy the book and have the autograph it. thank you on much to you and to our commentators. heart mark >> historical novelist said to focus on five families, american, english, german, russian and welsh as they traverse the political landscape with the second world war. this is just over an hour. >> thank you and good evening. you and i have never met until 10 minutes ago, but i have to say i feel as if i know you after so many years of reading your terrific books. you've given me and most of the people here tonight tremendous pleasure. as i think one critic from your book said being able to get lost in a wonderful story and come out days or weeks later feeling as if you've learned something. so you do both things i appreciate what you do so much. to make something like an historical trilogy. that is tiny little pieces. i learned on the cbs and is issued to journalism. is that true? >> is close to the truth, yes. my first job was university reporter in the south with echo, w
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seconds later, a marine was killed along with a member of the iraqi forces that were accompanying us. it was a very poignant moment, shot in the head, the battalion commander was right next to me. five minute before that, said who are you? i am a combat historian and i'm here to gather your story. i have written several books on world war ii. interestingly enough he said any, a colonel of the battalion, he said my father was the pilot in world war ii who fought on the eastern front. we had this immediate reports and within five minute for engage in combat. what was so striking and interesting is this young marine was killed, he said gentlemen, i want to see a symphony fire. quoted general patton that day, every one of us including me, a civilian arm with an m-16 because i wanted to survive, fired down the block, we suppressed those people. several years later we came back, i was given the honor of taking the fifth marines which he led to normandy and we toward the normandy battlefields with the men i was in full. away, and went to pointe du hoc which is the subject of this book "dog c
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>> guest: that cloud is all of us. the cloud is the marketing term for the way in which the internet as a whole can offer business services and what that means more specifically perhaps is a large data center, a data warehouse. perhaps not and ashburn at the next town over but in the next town over it has to tether in and connect directly, as directly as possible to the distribution depot you might say of ashburn virginia. ashburn is a place where bandwidth is the most abundant and the cheapest. it's a place that the most direct connections to the most other places and when you are dealing with a cloud perhaps with either e-mail or your backup for some program you use to manage your salesforce or whatever it is, you wanted to operate absolutely as possible, as much like sitting on your own computer. and that means being as closely tied to major network hubs as possible. >> host: in our discussion the past half hour we have talked about generators and wires and rooms with air conditioners etc.. how green is the internet
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sportsmen are not used to having the government step in and scooped up what they were used to hunting and fishing on. so part of the mission was to explain the rationale for these refugees. one of these booklet was devoted not to a specific refuge, but the subject of conservation generally. the conservation inaction number five was published in 1948. it's really a landmark of conservation literature and all of these booklet demonstrated one of the things that scare you sick about carson's work for the government, that it is often too good for the government. several occasions is a dicey taking she written into something else because her supervisors thought the government didn't deserve the literature she was producing. although in fact these were sent out to universities and extension services. you could buy one from the u.s. printing office, but if he went to wildlife refuge and stopped at the information kiosk, you could pick one up and read about the refugee you are visiting. but what you do get a sense of a person was doing. again, this is a pamphlet you get for free if you went t
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he always makes us feel better. so bobby picked up the phone to call him dad in palm beach and he got on the phone and supple, guys, this is terrible. this is a fiasco. this is a debacle. but it is the beginning of the four-year term. by the time you get to the end, everyone will have forgot. the fact that you apologize, the american people love that. you watch her polls go weeks. kennedy was right. bobby was right. they felt better than the posted code talk in two weeks. i was the kind of father he was. one of the reasons he enjoyed writing the book was a response that distressed me from beginning to end. anti-semitism, appeasement, ruthless stock market, racketeering, the lobotomy that i never understood in cutting rosemary off. but his relationship with all the children, including rosemary off to those last years was truly remarkable. someone that up without, i thank you all for your attention. [applause] >> many publications putting together year-end lists of notable list. booktv will features several nonfiction
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it's too big an opportunity let us construction view of the government. stop us. we have to get the land. they did. skill and flexibility are things on the whole we like in a president. you shouldn't be surprised that someone of jefferson's record has skill and flebility. think about what he did. if he didn't have them the process and the long record would have seen it and blocked him from getting power. so the question isn't again that having -- being a low impact leader is not a bad thing. the easiest way to have an impact is to fail. there are many more ways to fail than succeed. most high impact leaders are bad. >> you also make the point that not only was jefferson seeing eye to eye with. major federalist approve this too. not all of them but the major one. in fact jobbed a damn -- job adams on record saying he was in favor and his son broke party ranks to vote in favor of the purchase. it's hard to imagine him doing that without the approval of his father. so as we see, you know, as we see in modern politics. a major incentive was to deny him the try yomp. w
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there, peter, and your dmons follow you, all your problems on shore, they, as we know, they come with us. we know about the alcohol in earnest hemingway's life, and how extensive was it, paul, and what about depression? was that a factor in the life as well? >> what? >> depression. >> oh, there's no question that hemingway suffered from what we recognize today as manic depression, bipolarrism. there was alcoholism. i think if he was alive today he might be medicated to prevent some of these things and possibly his suicide which raises a very thorny question. would he have written as brilliantly as he did if he was not suffering so much? that's a hard, hard question that too many artists have to face up to. >> paul, long time reporter for the washington post, what other topics have you written about as an author of books? >> i wrote about robert mack that mar, a name in this city, architect of vietnam, that book published in 1996 called "the living and the dead," and i wrote a book called "sons of mississippi," the book previous to this, a study of the civil rights south and integration o
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using different combinations. so the lesson is really persuasion is necessary to persuade the doubtful. but if you don't do the numbers you won't succeed. persuade and the numbers you have the chance but in these two men together symbiotically did it spent we're speaking with fergus bordewich, author of "america's great debate." thank you. >> thank you. >> with one month left in 2012, many publications are putting together their year end list of notable books. booktv will feature several of these lists focusing on nonfiction selections. these nonfiction titles were included in "foreign policy" magazine's must read books.
using different combinations. so the lesson is really persuasion is necessary to persuade the doubtful. but if you don't do the numbers you won't succeed. persuade and the numbers you have the chance but in these two men together symbiotically did it spent we're speaking with fergus bordewich, author of "america's great debate." thank you. >> thank you. >> with one month left in 2012, many publications are putting together their year end list of notable books. booktv will...